Category: South Dakota Coyotes
South Dakota to Host largest D-I Team Camp In Midwest
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Starting Sunday July 6, The University of South Dakota football team will host the first of four team camps that they will be conducting this summer. The Coyote football camp, which is the largest NCAA Division I team camp in the Mid… more »
UND may have new conference
UND and other programs moving to NCAA Division I this fall want as smooth a transition as possible.
A key to that smooth move is finding a conference. So, instead of waiting for a conference to add them, they might just create their own.
UND, Sout… more »
South Dakota Admits Talks To Form Great West Into All-Sports Conference
The University of South Dakota is making an effort with several other independent Division I schools to form an all-sports conference, athletic director Joel Nielsen said Monday.
USD, which will be an independent Division I transitional school next s… more »
USD looking to form new conference
All-sports league would include other independents, North Dakota
The University of South Dakota is making an effort with several other independent Division I schools to form an all-sports conference, athletic director Joel Nielsen said Monday.
USD… more »
In their words: A look back at the NCC
Editor's note: After 87 years of setting a high standard for NCAA Division II athletic success, the North Central Conference will bid farewell at a celebration gala in Sioux Falls on Saturday.
To put the league's past in perspective and honor its con… more »
UTPA Looking To The... Great West?
The plans of the Great West Football conference may include the possibility of becoming an all-sports conference.
EDINBURG - The University of Texas-Pan American is looking west in its decade-long search for conference affiliation.
Great West Comm… more »
Quite a Run For The NCC
The Grand Forks Herald's Wayne Nelson talks a little bit about the history of the now-defunct NCC Division II conference - the conference that gave FCS North Dakota, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, and Northern Color… more »
Former South Dakota OL Schneider Agrees to Contract with UIF's Sioux Falls Storm
Tim Schneider signed a contract to join the Sioux Falls Storm of United Indoor Football.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Tim Schneider, former offensive tackle for The University of South Dakota football team, has signed a contract with the Sioux Falls Storm of… more »
Tornado Sets Stage For Heroes From South Dakota's Football Program
USD football program linked to Iowa town.
University of South Dakota football player Evan Capper was helping grill food behind a restaurant for a friend's graduation party when it started raining last Sunday in Parkersburg, Iowa.
Capper, along wit… more »
BC Lions Lnk South Dakota RB Amos Allen to CFL Contract
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) have announced that they have signed another former running back from The University of South Dakota. Amos Allen, who in his one season at USD set the single season rushing record, si… more »
Former South Dakota Running Back Heads To CFL Training Camp
Amos Allen signs deal with the British Columbia Lions of the CFL.
The 10,000-seat Dakota Dome, home to the University of South Dakota football team, was dome sweet dome for Amos Allen last season.
Now the record-setting running back with the Coyot… more »
Playoff expansion will require adjustments
Season length the same after move to 20 teams
By most accounts, the NCAA Board of Directors' recent decision to expand the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs to 20 teams beginning in 2010 was necessary and overdue. The field has stood at 16 -… more »
USD Athletic Officials Question Possible Lead in Turf
Amid growing concern that some artificial sports fields might be contaminated with lead and potentially unsafe, athletic officials in South Dakota have contacted manufacturers of their turf to find out more.
Much of the concerns are focused on frayin… more »
Going D-I? Better hit the books
SDSU, USD face tougher academic standards at higher NCAA level
Last week, the NCAA released its annual academic progress rate - or APR - and subsequently handed down penalties to 218 underachieving teams.
While the outcome showed that major-colleg… more »
Nice to know you, NCC
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Patrick Mahoney and four teammates were getting their photograph taken together on the infield at Howard Wood Field on Saturday when Mahoney asked the group a question.
A senior, Mahoney wondered if any of them knew who was the fi… more »
